What's It All About?

You know, often people ask what church is all about. They ask what they will get out of church. They get angry because someone doesn't look right or speak right or act right. Jesus said it is the sick who need a physician. There is simply no perfect church because we will not be perfect until we see Jesus face to face. Paul says it this way, "we who are strong ought to bare with the failings of the weak". This is what Grace Fellowship is about I believe. It's not about a bunch of people who think they are perfect or better than smeone else getting together to feel sorry for all those other poor slobs out there. No, it's about imperfect people getting together and as the writer of Hebrews says, "spurring one another on towards love and good deeds and to encourage one another all the more as the day approaches". Why would we need encouragement if we have already arrived. No, church is about getting together and learning to love and forgive just as Christ loves us and forgave all of our great transgressions. In fact, Jesus says if we can't forgive our brother when he sins against us, our heavenly Father WILL NOT forgive us. So, when we gather together. Let's not do so to find fault because there is plenty to be found. Let's not come looking for how church will benefit us. Let's come and look to love others and pour encouragement into the lives of the weak and to appreciate the testimony of the strong. When we do that, we will tear down the walls of our enemy and send him runnig away in defeat.

Until later,

Don